LibGuides: Ebooks: Health & Life Sciences

Health Sciences Ebook Collections

Health Sciences Collections:

AccessMedicine Textbooks
About 75 prominent medical textbooks representing all the major medical disciplines. Includes the Lange Educational Library textbooks.

Access Pharmacy This link opens in a new window
Like AccessMedicine, find videos, learning games, Q&A, leading pharmacy textbooks, and information about drugs, herbs and supplements. There are helpful resources for both pharmacy and medical students and clinicians.

Thieme E-book Library
Over 200 books, most of which are color illustrated anatomical atlases or other imaging-related books.

Colloquium Digital Library of Life Sciences
100-title library of short lecture-sized books, each synthesizing an important research topic, with more analysis & depth than the typical research article. Good for cell biology, physiology, neurology, medicine, and bioengineering.
CRCnetBASE
CRC Press' e-book collections with browsable subsets of biomedical science, healthcare, life science, medicine, nutrition, pharmaceutical science and regulation, among others.

Knovel This link opens in a new window
3,000+ texts, handbooks, encyclopedias and databases. Primarily engineering-focused but has some titles in biology, biochemistry, biotechnology and biopharmaceuticals, including the Biology Data Handbook (vols 1-3) and titles from the American Society for Microbiology.

ASM Online Monographs
Over 200 e-books from the American Society for Microbiology 1990s-2018. Newer books may be on Wiley platform.
National Academies Press
Over 3,000 book-length reports from the National Academies. Emphasis on science, engineering, technology, science policy and science education.
ScienceDirect
Thousands of ebooks in a variety of disciplines including some health sciences and life sciences.
Springer
Over 40,000 books covering numerous fields of science & engineering. Titles from 2005-present can be bought at a discounted price of $24.95 - look for MyCopy.
Wiley
1,300+ e-books, with strong emphasis on biosciences, chemistry, physical sciences & engineering. The UC's purchased all 2011-2016 e-books, plus selected titles from 2010 and earlier.
See also Methods & Protocols